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Sunday, 11 October 2015

A firefight between
militants and security forces is underway in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
The Army said the gunfight began around 5 pm when soldiers were carrying out
searches in the dense forests of Waderbala, Handwara, 100 km from here.

“There is no report of any
casualty so far,” a defence official said. He said the Army intercepted a group
of militants in the area this morning and there was brief exchange of fire in
the area. The militants escaped after initial contact.

The soldiers continued searches
in the area. Contact was again established with militants around 5 pm and
exchange of fire was going on.

Sources said a group of
militants which had infiltrated recently was holed up in the forest.

Isolated North Korea
marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday with a
massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country
was ready to fight any war waged by the United States.

Thousands of troops
stood at attention under a blue autumn sky in Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung
Square, named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather and the founder of the nation, as
Kim, appearing relaxed and confident, made his speech, leaning heavily on the
lectern.

The young leader was
accompanied by senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan, with whom
he was seen speaking throughout the event and occasionally shared laughs, and
flanked by senior North Korean party and military officials.

“The party’s revolutionary
armament means we are ready to fight any kind of war waged by the US
imperialists,” Kim said in a speech strikingly more forceful than previous
public comments, praising the feats of past leaders and the ruling party.

He made no direct mention of the
country’s nuclear programme, likely a conciliatory diplomatic gesture towards
China, which hosted the now-defunct “six-party talks”, also involving the
United States, on giving economic incentives to Pyongyang in return for
scrapping its atomic ambitions.

Kim’s speech was followed by
troops marching in formation, first by a corps of soldiers dressed in the style
of the revolutionary force that fought Japan during World War Two, and then a
procession of military might rolling past the square.

A battery of the North’s
intercontinental ballistic missiles was the highlight of the weapons display,
although they are not known to have been successfully tested. Impoverished
North Korea and rich democratic South Korea remain technically at war after
their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty. — Reuters